HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081448860
Bassin de Luancundo
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 1 administrative regions : Mavinga
Sub-basin area
1 866,7km²
Upstream area
5 236,3km²
Discharge
20,88m³/s
Mean elev.
1 114m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Luancundo496 km²
- Bassin de Luancundo417 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mavinga1860.3 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Mavinga National Park
IUCN IINational Park
1127.13 km² overlap
Luengue-Luiana National Park
IUCN IINational Park
733.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 6 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,1°C
Annual rain
742mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
64mm/an
PET
1 851mm
AET
626mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
196cm
Forest
5%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)